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BULLS OF THE WEEK Amidst some grumbling about a CFL playoff structure which does not necessarily reward the league’s best clubs — especially in a year in which no Eastern team finished above .500 — the Saskatchewan Roughriders are proving again this week that they are the crown jewel of Three Down Nation. None of […]

On a late spring evening the town of Caiazzo is a little jewel perched high up in the hills just outside the city of Caserta in Italy’s Campania region. Not far up a road and down a narrow alley is a man who makes magic with flour. His name is Franco Pepe.

The FA Cup Final is Saturday at Wembley, with Manchester United taking on Crystal Palace.
The game should be of even greater interest than usual to fans here in B.C., with news that Crystal Palace will be here at B.C. Place on July 19 to take on the Whitecaps in an exhibition. This international friendly is being put on by the Vancouver-Guangzhou Friendship Society and Vancouver Chinese Soccer Association.

Anthony Gismondi and Mia Stainsby pair food and wine. Cornmeal, Honey and Ricotta Fritters A dessert that doesn’t overwhelm with sweetness. They require a bit of work but make them ahead and freeze them then fry them right out of the freezer. If you can’t find a bitter honey (orange blossom honey tends towards the […]

It was during the water-taxi ride from Venice’s airport to our canal-side hotel that our 16-year-old first revealed his awareness of historic Italian landmarks. As the sleek speedboat carrying the four of us emerged from a narrow canal and sped past St. Mark’s Square, John said, “Look, there’s the bell tower from Assassin’s Creed.”

One day, about eight years ago, in the fairy tale principality of Monaco, Olesya Krakhmalyova, took a bite of something and the experience struck like a lightning bolt. It would change her life. The electric jolt was a Laduree macaron. “It was the best thing I’d ever tasted and I’m not a dessert person,” she […]

An improbable but classic story about a forbidden love between two people who seek to overcome class adversity been turned into an award-winning independent film by an equally improbable producer who has faced down her own life-long adversities.

Re: Victoria cheers new federal budget, March 23
British Columbia should be attempting to impress the world by making its main economic engine — the Metro Vancouver region — hospitable and attractive, over the long term, to prospective corporate and individual investors.

BC Place Stadium, Science World and Rogers Arena will be lit up in blue lights on April 2 as part of a global Autism Awareness Day. The Vancouver buildings join more than 18,000 landmarks, businesses and communities in 143 countries on every continent participating in the event. Some of the iconic landmarks lighting up blue on […]

We are not yet far enough removed from the 1970s and ’80s that you can float the idea of using crystals and semi-precious stones in home decor without people conjuring up shocking blue geodes or hippy shrines, and yet there has been a resurgence of these materials.

An unlicensed and unqualified well driller who tapped into a pressurized aquifer in southwest Vancouver last year triggered an uncontrolled flood of water that is threatening as many as a dozen multimillion-dollar homes.

News that a Turkish court sentenced two men to just over four years in prison for human smuggling on Friday brought little comfort to Tima Kurdi, whose nephew Alan’s drowning focused the world’s attention on the Syrian refugee crisis.

Kudos to the B.C. Egg Marketing Board for labelling Wednesday's made-for-media event in down-town Vancouver - the unveiling of a life-size fire truck made from, of all odd things, egg cartons - as an exercise in "eggonomics."

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